Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC GeorgiaThe Benefits of Building and Growing Your In-House Pro-Bono & Volunteer Program
In-house legal teams can reap many of the same benefits as law firms when implementing pro bono programs at their companies. Strong pro bono programs can enhance critical aspects of the operations of a company as well as their legal department. The ACC Georgia Chapter welcomes Rachel Spears, the Executive Director of Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta; Rick McMurtry, SVP and Associate General Counsel with WarnerMedia; and Jeff Douglass, Partner & Pro Bono Chair at Morris, Manning and Martin, LLP; for an engaging discussion on the benefits of a pro bono program. Their presentation will include how to get started, how to grow the program and the benefits it will bring to your organization and your practice.
The presentation will cover:
• Making the case to business leadership
• Policy and program development
• Determining the interests, activities, and skills of your team and company
• Addressing challenges including malpractice insurance and attorneys licensed in other states
• Creating opportunities
• Maximizing the benefits of an in-house pro bono program, such as:
o Engagement, teamwork and morale
o Recruitment and retention
o Integration with the company, the community and the profession
o Enhanced inside/outside counsel relationships
o Hands on learning for junior members of in-house team
• Engaging non-lawyer staff
• Goal setting and tracking success
Speakers
Rachel Epps Spears was hired as the Executive Director of Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta in 2005 when the organization was founded. Prior to joining the Partnership, Rachel was an associate in the public finance department at King & Spalding in Atlanta. She is a former Chair of the State Bar of Georgia Nonprofit Law Section and is a member of the Public Interest Executive Roundtable of the Atlanta Bar Association. She has been recognized as one of Georgia Trend Magazine’s Legal Elite and the Daily Report’s On the Rise attorneys. She has received the EPIC Inspiration Award: Unsung Devotion to Those Most in Need awarded by Emory University School of Law and the Rita A. Sheffey Public Interest Award presented by the Atlanta Bar Association. Rachel graduated from Davidson College with a degree in Political Science and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Rick McMurtry is Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel with WarnerMedia -- parent company of Warner Bros., HBO, CNN, and many other media, sports, and entertainment properties. During his 20-year tenure with the company, Rick has been responsible for advertising compliance, trademark, patent, domain name, anti-piracy, licensing, and IP enforcement legal matters. Rick also oversees business and legal affairs for much of WarnerMedia's music portfolio. Prior to joining Turner (now WarnerMedia) in 2000, Rick worked with the law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy in Atlanta and Howrey Simon in Washington, DC. Rick was honored to serve as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Robert Echols with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee after his graduation from Vanderbilt University School of Law.
Jeff Douglass of Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP is a Partner in the firm’s Product Liability, Mass Torts & Class Actions Practice and serves as the firm’s General Counsel. He maintains a national commercial litigation practice with a particular emphasis on class action, product liability and other complex, high-exposure litigation. He has experience in a broad range of industries, including pharmaceutical, chemical additive, and automotive. As Chair of MMM’s Pro Bono Program, Jeff worked closely with firm management and PBPA to build the initiative and helped to increase attorney pro bono involvement at the firm substantially over the last five years.
Notes
Attendance is limited to ACC members and their invited in-house counsel guests, as well as prospective ACC members. ACC membership is open to attorneys who practice law as in-house counsel employees of organizations and who do not hold themselves out to the public for the practice of law.
Thanks to Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, this webinar is complimentary for ACC Georgia members. A CLE credit of one (1) hour is being applied for, and if approved, will be submitted to the Georgia State Bar for attendees licensed to practice in Georgia.
While we understand that some "no shows" are unavoidable, we kindly ask that you please consider our speakers and hosts who have spent a considerable amount of time and resources to put this webinar on for you before deciding not to attend. Good attendance helps ensure that ACC Georgia can continue to offer CLE programming and networking events at no cost to our ACC Georgia members. If you need to cancel, we ask for 48 hours’ notice to georgia@accglobal.com. If you have any questions, please contact Connie Swindell-Harding at georgia@accglobal.com.
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Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP